Gas Prices Skyrocket

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That's half the reason I'm moving close enough to campus to walk. Nevermind the fact that I'm still in school so I wouldn't have to worry about commuting in the first place. :D

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I just can't wait til all the blowjobs who bought their hummers and debt-up-tp-the-eyeballls homes have to declare bankruptcy when their variable rate interest payments rise and their gas bill doubles; only to find that the Shrub they voted for oversaw a doubling of gas prices and dilution of bankruptcy laws, resulting in their indebtedness for the rest of their conservative, wife-beating lives.
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edit: we should have a special type of code to signify rants, like red letters on a white background or something
 
Mad Max said:
Gas Prices Skyrocket - In Wisconsin it is $2.30 a gallon. I have to search the wastelands for cheap fuel.
Wisconsin, USA:
$2.30 per gallon <=> $0.61 per liter
<=>
€1.77 per gallon <=> €0.47 per liter
<=>100%

North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany:
€1.14 per liter <=> €4.31 per gallon
<=>
$1.47 per liter <=> $5.57 per gallon
<=>242%

:roll:
 
Hah, i just returned from the nearest gas station here in Wilmette (Northern suburb of Chicago). I saved the receipt: 2.359 $/gallon.

I'm so glad my school is close, i only drive around 30 mins a day.
 
DeKalb and most of McHenry county are at $2.30. I blame the fact that Chicago and its surrounding suburbs have the worst traffic problem on the face of the planet.

On a side note: I got ticketed for nothing today (I was wearing my seatbelt and the officer said I wasn't). This completes my belief that the police in America are -- without a doubt -- the most useless force on the planet.
 
There was an rather interesting article in <a href=http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7203633?pageid=rs.Politics&pageregion=single1&rnd=1113166527847&has-player=unknown> Rollingstone</a> about this matter. I think that most of the things said in the article are pretty much inevitable. Well better drive around as long as it lasts :)
 
I'll just say this, prices in europe are still much higher as Member of Khans mentioned in his clever 'table'

Stop Complaining.
 
Gas prices in Belgium:

Super, leadless, 98 oct. : 1.21 €/l = 4.58 €/ gallon = 5.87 $/gallon.


Gas prices here in Belgium must be the highest in the world.
 
Aye, part of the issue here is that gas is too cheap in the USA, and it's not always justified. One could say you have a bigger country and drive more, but why? The EU has open borders and we drive around quite a lot, yet we don't weep over high fuel prices...

Part of the reason might be that we drive mostly Japanese and German cars or, in other words, our automobiles don't suck the big one.

The other part of the reason might be that any reasonable car here drives 15 km/l (about 35-40 mpg, I guess), which you don't hear from your cars a lot. I guess your public transport system must be at least as bad as GB's, else it'd be more popular.

I don't understand how the US gets away with those low gas prices, really, maybe you'd learn to be more economical if the prices skyrocket. Heh, good for the environment, but bad for the economy, I guess, which might be exactly why nobody in the US ever cared

That's pretty high, Jebus, though I've seen it above 1.38 EUR per liter here.
 
Murdoch said:
That's half the reason I'm moving close enough to campus to walk. Nevermind the fact that I'm still in school so I wouldn't have to worry about commuting in the first place. :D

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I just can't wait til all the blowjobs who bought their hummers and debt-up-tp-the-eyeballls homes have to declare bankruptcy when their variable rate interest payments rise and their gas bill doubles; only to find that the Shrub they voted for oversaw a doubling of gas prices and dilution of bankruptcy laws, resulting in their indebtedness for the rest of their conservative, wife-beating lives.
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edit: we should have a special type of code to signify rants, like red letters on a white background or something

Yes, I was thinking similar thoughts. Most americans are one financial crisis away from financial ruin.

That said, you got to love this administration when it gives tax breaks to the middle class to buy SUVs, protects SUVs from being more fuel efficient. Everyone gets that a big fat, gas guzzling SUV so they can show off to their neighbors, and then the gas prices hit the roof. Can this President fuck the middle class in ass, or what?

amoult said:
There was an rather interesting article in <a href=http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/_/id/7203633?pageid=rs.Politics&pageregion=single1&rnd=1113166527847&has-player=unknown> Rollingstone</a> about this matter. I think that most of the things said in the article are pretty much inevitable. Well better drive around as long as it lasts :)

Nice article- time to stock up on shotguns and canned food, or at least invest in arable land?

I loved this bit-

I'm not optimistic about the Southeast, either, for different reasons. I think it will be subject to substantial levels of violence as the grievances of the formerly middle class boil over and collide with the delusions of Pentecostal Christian extremism. The latent encoded behavior of Southern culture includes an outsized notion of individualism and the belief that firearms ought to be used in the defense of it. This is a poor recipe for civic cohesion.

:badmood: I thought more guns made society safer! Yeah.... right.
 
There is a gas station here in town that is charging like $2.549, but thats not really abnormal because its right off the freeway and you normally have to go far into town for cheaper gas.
 
Yeah, as Bob said, it's getting bad in Tucson. I just bought gas for $2.399/gallon. I only got $10 worth though, because I knew it couldn't be that expensive elsewhere. Sure enough, right around the corner it was $2.259/gallon. Still not nearly as bad as our European brethren though.
 
Problem is that most people in Europe have realistic access to public transportation or areas where you can bike to wherever you want. A great deal of America is still rural, meaning you pretty much have to drive ten miles or more to come into contact with civilization. This makes owning cars an unfortunate necessity in America.

And then, of course, you have our asinine consumerist government rewarding people for buying shitty vehicles. That doesn't help matters either.
 
Attention all Americans:
Quit bitching about gas prices until you have to pay $3.41 per gallon like people in Canada do. I live in a city where you HAVE to drive if you want to get around efficently, because the public transit is a joke and my city is LA-style suburban sprawl, so don't give me the "OMG you can just take transit where you live!"

Also: link!
 
Scrapper said:
Problem is that most people in Europe have realistic access to public transportation or areas where you can bike to wherever you want. A great deal of America is still rural, meaning you pretty much have to drive ten miles or more to come into contact with civilization.

You know, before Americans became even more lazy then they are now, that wasn't a problem. I used to have to walk 10 miles every day to get to work in the States, its not a big deal unless you're fat and lazy. Driving was VERY nice, but walking was by no means a problem.

And people Stateside should really stop bitching about gas prices that are less then half what everyone else is paying.
 
calculon00 said:
Quit bitching about gas prices until you have to pay $3.41 per gallon like people in Canada do. I live in a city where you HAVE to drive if you want to get around efficently, because the public transit is a joke and my city is LA-style suburban sprawl, so don't give me the "OMG you can just take transit where you live!"

Dude what the hell? Read Member of the Khans post and remember that his five and half USD per gallon isn't that unusual a price in Europe. Don't whine unless you're realling suffering, ey?

Lauren said:
You know, before Americans became even more lazy then they are now, that wasn't a problem. I used to have to walk 10 miles every day to get to work in the States, its not a big deal unless you're fat and lazy. Driving was VERY nice, but walking was by no means a problem.

Walking to work is great and fine. A lot of Dutch do it, either that or, more commenly, bicycle to work. I used to walk to work every day too, though that was only the odd 3 or 4 miles away.

That isn't always an option though. The job I've been doing lately is 35 minutes with public transportation and I have to be there at 7. No way I'm walking for that, especially not as it's construction and it's not a good idea to arrive in any other state than ready to start lifting heavy stuff immediately.
 
The only reason I got all pissed is because Canada has virtually the same urban/rural setup as the states and all the factors that someone from the states might try to use to justify needing to pay lower gas prices in the USA are more or less the same here.

I'm better now though. :? Cheap gas for all I say! :D
 
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